by Lindsey Byman | Apr 2, 2024 | Environment, Featured, Topics
Since David Laird was young, the “lush, green forests” of the western United States meant an annual summer trip to hike, camp and fish. But the last time Laird was in Wyoming’s Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, a bark beetle had ravaged an estimated two-thirds of...
by Ruby Grisin | Mar 18, 2024 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – When Dr. Lisa Patel was working on a project for the Environmental Protection Agency in 2005, she visited a children’s hospital for asthma in Mumbai, India. After seeing the main parts of the center, she was surprised when the coordinators took her to a...
by Ruby Grisin | Mar 14, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – With approximately 70,000 wildfires per year since 1983, federal agencies’ told senators on Thursday that emergency responses must be reformed to better aid impacted communities. The threat of wildfires is immense. From injuries and deaths to property...
by Lindsey Byman | Jan 23, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Environment, Featured
MANCHESTER, N.H. – The frontrunner in the GOP presidential race, Donald Trump, is continually vowing that if he becomes president, he will “drill, baby, drill” for oil and gas. Such a message, however, runs counter to efforts by the Republican Party to attract young...
by Kunjal Bastola | Dec 11, 2023 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – With the presidential election less than a year away, some voters are apprehensive about the future of climate policy. Many young climate activists have mixed feelings on President Biden’s climate progress, citing the Inflation Reduction Act as a win,...
